Plate Coral Help (fungia)

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Can anyone help me figure out what’s going on with my plate coral? Is it dying? What I’m seeing - which may be difficult to see in pics, is the pink or flesh part of the coral “disappearing” and what’s left is a white skeleton looking part of the coral. During the day it’s plumped up but most of the time lately I see it looking like this. Is it dying? Anything ideas would be very helpful. It was close to a large leather coral but never touched it. Thanks for looking.

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I see some skeleton showing so it’s not doing well.

I would move it to a low flow low light section of the tank, maybe even away from fine sand as I find they actually don’t like fine sand too much.

Plates grow back from near death so I would be optimistic
 
Lot of questions here.
What light is it under? How intense?
Are you feeding it? What are you feeding it?
What are your parameters? Nitrates/phosphates high or bottomed out?
How much direct flow is it getting?
Are you running carbon?
 

WHAT’S USUALLY THE FIRST CLUE THAT SOMETHING IS OFF IN YOUR REEF?

  • A fish’s behavior or appetite changes

    Votes: 11 15.5%
  • A coral looks different or stops opening normally

    Votes: 44 62.0%
  • Water clarity or surface appearance changes

    Votes: 10 14.1%
  • Equipment sounds or flow seem different

    Votes: 7 9.9%
  • A test result catches my attention

    Votes: 14 19.7%
  • Algae or other growth starts changing

    Votes: 14 19.7%
  • I usually notice when the problem is already obvious

    Votes: 3 4.2%
  • It depends on what’s going on

    Votes: 13 18.3%
  • Other (Post in the comments)

    Votes: 1 1.4%
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